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From: Modris Fersters
Date: 2023 Jan 23, 11:53 -0800
Hello, Bruce!
The book’s name in english would be something like that: B. Krasavcev. “Instruments and Methods of Nautical Astronomy”, 1972.
Only one paragraph of the book is devoted to traditional sextant. I will translate all the content of the book to understand what the book is about . The content of the book is following:
Chapter 1: Review of manuals on marine astronomy. Perspectivs of their developement.
Chater 2: Sextant for the navigation and other angle measurement instruments. Actual situation and perspectives of developement.
Chapter 3: Features for finding ships position by dayliht observations
Chapter 4: Techniques to accelerate observations
Chapter 5: Analysis of errors of astronomical observations
Chapter 6: Applicancies and machines to execute tasks of nautical astronomy
I doubt it will be possible to find a full translation of the book (but I am not 100% sure). But if you are interested only in the paragraph about nautical sextant I can translate it for you. In this case please let me know. Of coures, if you are interested in the full book (not in one paragraph) I won't be able to help.
Modris Fersters
